Can we be busy with earthly cares all the six days of the week and be ready for the holy Sabbath without a thought? I trow not. Most kings inherit what other swords have won, but Jesus himself with His own blood hath purchased a kingdom to Himself. The Gospel gives man a hope, and that is a grand thing for the degraded and self-condemned. It is a great deal better to sift an affair to the bottom than it is to be always tormented by suspicion. We meet with a certain class of men who are rather pert
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